The Data Warrior

Data Warrior Agenda for 2016

Hard to believe 2015 is almost over.

It was a very busy year for me:

• Lots of interesting #AgileDataWarehouse work as an independent consultant. Worked on at least 4 different clients with 4 different partners. (and thankful for every one!)
• Recorded two online training classes with my good friend Dan Linstedt at LearnDataVault.com
  • Agile Methods & Data Warehousing
  • Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Jumpstart
• Spoke at several events:
  • DAMA Houston
  • RMOUG Training Days 2015
  • World Wide Data Vault Consortium 2015 in Stowe, VT (the hills were alive!)
  • KSCOPE15 in Hollywood, FL (great white party!)
  • ECO2015 in Raleigh, NC (beer…)
  • Oracle Open World 2015 (in the #Cloud)
  • Did a presentation while on the road for the Oracle Virtual Technology Summit (VTS)
  • Did a webinar for the ODTUG Leadership Training Program
  • am I forgetting any?
• Wrote a guest blog post series on Data Vault for the folks at Vertabelo
• Got interviewed by the Opal Alapat for a profile piece on the ODTUG blog (thanks again)
• Went to Colorado a few times to officiate at several advanced black belt exams for Rocky Mountain Tae Kwon Do (Denver) and Blue Wave Martial Arts (Salida)
• Wrote a little Kindle book with tips for using Oracle SDDM (Sql Developer Data Modeler)
• Wrote another Kindle book! This one on Data Vault 2.0.
• Took a new position as Senior Technical Evangelist for Snowflake Computing (fyi – look for coming blog posts here)

All of that has entailed a lot of air miles! This year I have visited:

1. Denver (several times!)
2. Salida, Colorado
3. Hollywood, Florida,
4. Raleigh, NC
5. Charlotte, NC (thanks to Lynn Winterboer for that one!)
6. San Francisco
7. Redwood City, California (Oracle HQ)
8. Austin (drove this one)
9. Minneapolis/ St Paul (thanks to Redpill Analytics mostly)
10. Kansas City, Missouri
11. Portland, Maine
12. St Albans, Vermont
13. Stowe, Vermont
14. San Mateo, California (HQ for Snowflake Computing)

And that was just work related! Family trips took me to:

1. Galveston (beach!)
2. South Padre Island, TX (more beach!)
3. Road trip to Central NY:
   1. Joplin, Missouri
   2. Hannibal, Missouri (Mark Twain museum)
   3. Chicago (to see robots at the Museum of Science and Industry)
   4. Sandusky, Ohio (just to sleep)
   5. Fulton, NY (to see my dad)
   6. Old Forge, NY (summer vacation in the mountains!)
   7. Huntsville, Alabama (NASA Rocket Center!)
4. Who knows – the year is not over yet!

Speaking in 2016

2016 will be very busy with the new job for sure. I am already booked for a bunch of events. Here they are so far:

Data Day Texas – January 16 in Austin, TX

TDWI Webinar – Dymstyfying Elastic Data Warehousing (with Philip Russom) – January 26th

BIWA Summit – January 26-28 at Oracle HQ

RMOUG Training Days 2016 – Febuary 9-11 in Denver, CO (I have 2 hour deep dive on Feb 9th). Register early for discounts.

Enterprise Data World – April 17-22 in San Diego. Register early for discounts (by the end of the year for the best rate).

ODTUG KScope16 – June 26-30 in Chicago, IL. Register early and be sure to book the hotel!

Also likely speaking at World Wide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC) – May 25-28 in Stowe, Vermont (TBD)

And many more to come! (watch my twitter feed for updates)

Hopefully I will see you at one or more of these events!

Wishing a safe a joyous holiday season!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Kent

The Data Warrior